Quote by Herman Melville
He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say

He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. – Herman Melville

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Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. – Herman Melville

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The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass. – Herman Melville

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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what youre going to be thinking tomorrow. – Glen Beaman

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Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that were so fond of it. – George Eliot

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Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability. – Michel de Montaigne

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